Jim Verburg expands the language of printmaking, using its tools in painterly and unconventional ways. Rollers, glass plates, balled fabrics, and even a rubber pool liner become instruments for quiet, layered compositions on mylar, tarlatan, paper, and newsprint.

Across these tests and variations, light, shape, blur, noise, and horizon recur—sometimes implied, dissolved, or softly emerging through tone and texture.

While some works approach being a monoprint, they belong to their own distinct category. A visitor once described this approach as “prainting” — painting through the tools of printmaking.

This exhibition presents finished works alongside smaller studies and experimental tests, representing over ten years of exploration at Smokestack Studio.

Jim Verburg is a Dutch / Canadian artist currently based in Toronto. Notable projects include Within and Without, a two-part exhibition at Galerie Nicolas Robert (Montréal) and Zalucky Contemporary (Toronto, 2022); Shape and Light #1 for Toronto Dance Theatre (2016); The shape this takes to get to that, a public art commission for the City of Ottawa (2019); and One and Two at Galerie B-312 for Mois de la Photo Montréal (2011), recipient of the Dazibao Prize.

He has participated in group exhibitions at The Power Plant (Toronto), Luciana Caravello (Rio de Janeiro), Access Gallery (Vancouver), Inman Gallery (Houston), Paul Kuhn Gallery (Calgary), and Cydonia Gallery (Dallas). Art fair presentations include Art Brussels (2024), Expo Chicago (2018), Untitled Miami (2016, 2018), VOLTA NY (2015), and Texas Contemporary (2015).

Verburg’s film For a Relationship won Best Canadian Short Film at Inside Out (2008) and was nominated for the Iris Prize (UK). His publications include O/Divided/Defined (shortlisted for Best Printed Publication, Gala des Arts Visuels, 2014) and A New Relationship Between Reflective Sides (MoMA PS1, 2015). A 2017 Chalmers Arts Fellow, his work is held in numerous international collections, including the Panoptès Collection, Brussels (2025).